March 10, 2014

Lena Dunham on Saturday Night Live
— Ace

I saw a bit of this, just because it was so heavily promoted and I figured I should watch it, just as part of my job.

Truth Revolt headlines an article that one sketch featured Dunham "poking fun at the biblical narrative." That's true in a minor way -- the Eden story was handled irreverently, surely -- but the main target of the sketch was not the Eden story, but rather Dunham's screen persona as a narcissistic neurotic. She was playing her "Hannah" role from Girls in the sketch, and reduced everything in the Garden of Eden to her own list of shallow preoccupations. When "Adam" says that she was made from his rib, she objects "That's so sexist!"

When "God" speaks to her at the end, she only wants to ask about whether her publishing deal is still on. Hannah is forever worrying about whether her book will be published.

And of course it poked fun at her reputation for appearing nude at the drop of a hat. I think one "critic" said of the movie, "A lot of nudity... even for Dunham."

(One thing I think Dunham's critics either miss or do not confess often enough is that while Hannah is a neurotic narcissist, Dunham is aware of that fact, and makes Hannah the butt of jokes. That is, there seems to be an unexpressed belief that Dunham endorses all of Hannah's selfish, shallow dopiness, when in fact the show's position is that she is deeply flawed and quite mockable. She's still the hero of the show, don't get me wrong; but George Costanza was often the hero of Seinfeld, without Jerry Seinfeld or Jason Alexander ever being charged with believing that Costanza was the sort of character that people should aspire to be.

That doesn't mean I'm a fan-- I don't watch this show (except inadvertently, or by osmosis, because it gets chattered about a bunch). But it's just wrong to assert that Dunham is championing Hannah as a heroic ideal. Quite the opposite -- Hannah is intended as a deeply flawed comedic loser-hero. I'd say a "female Charlie Brown," but good ol' Chuck was highly ethical and thoughtful, which Hannah, in the main, is not.)

I really don't think that the Eden story was the main target of humor, here. It was the incongruity of seeing pampered, narcissistic, neurotic Hannah in the Garden of Eden, and to some extent about Dunham herself. Irreverent about God and the Bible, sure, but much more about Hollywood's interpretation of Bible stories than about actual Bible stories.

I mean, it's not a funny sketch, certainly. It just references Dunham's most famous role and puts that character in a different context. Meh. But I don't think the target here was the Bible. And if someone is goofing on herself, I give them latitude to goof on other things along the way.

Of course, later in the show, they featured a sketch in which a "male rights activist" was shown to be a loser h8r without troubling themselves to add any actual comedy to the piece. At the end, his out-of-his-league girlfriend tells him to hit the road. Yay, comeuppance for mustache-twirling stereotypes and cult hate objects!


There are so many problems with this that I really don’t want to take the time to parse them all. Suffice it to say that the creepy misogynist who opposes abortion just because he wants to keep women down is the left-wing P.C. equivalent of the equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men. Of course, in the case of every P.C. stereotype (whether it’s the P.C. of the Left or the Right) there are some individuals who conform to that stereotype. There are some pro-life activists who are misogynists who resent women’s equality; there are some pro-choice feminists who are shrill and motivated by resentment against men. But as broad-brush generalizations, both of these are, in my experience spanning almost five decades now, false.

Most readers will at this point expect me to denounce the SNL sketch because it expresses a political opinion different from mine. Nope: That’s totally fine with me. The day I can’t laugh at a joke by Rush Limbaugh or Jon Stewart or P. J. O’Rourke just because I don’t happen to agree with the political point of the particular joke is the day I will have to give up and register myself as “Humorless Person, Class A.” No, what really annoys me about that sketch is that I don’t remember there being any jokes in it. I am, among other things, a feminist and a pro-lifer, and I’m okay with people telling jokes about feminists and pro-lifers. But when you have an attack on any group, and don’t include any actual, you know, jokes, then what you’re left with is not a comedy sketch but merely an act of verbal aggression and ritual humiliation of the unpopular Other (in this case, the men’s-rights anti-abortion guy). As such, it of course deserves my protection from censorship, because I’m a First Amendment absolutist; what it does not deserve is my respect.

I understand that creative people like injecting "messages" important to them into their work, but such a piece has to also stand on its non-"message" merits to be a success. In this piece, there was nothing more than The Message. Girls good, h8rs bad.*

I only watched three or four sketches, to be honest. It just wasn't funny. That's not really Dunham's fault -- the show is never funny, and has not even been intermittently funny for about five or six years now. The only thing I thought was mildly funny (though really in an end-of-the-show weakest-sketches-that-made-the-cut sort of way) was this easy sketch about Bad Rap from Goofy White People. Easy and dumb, and I feel like I've seen this before, but still, if I'm being honest, I kind of smiled.

The show's ratings were down.

I'm really not sure why anyone watches it anymore.

Mildly Funny: This clip isn't from this show, but a previous one hosted by Tina Fey. It goofs on Girls.

Yeah, that's about as good as SNL gets, and it only gets that good once every five episodes.


* I have to say I tuned out of this sketch because it was so lame but I suppose... I suppose it's possible their intent was, possibly, to mock the intolerance of people on the left? I didn't pick up on such a subtle reversal, but who knows, maybe it was just because I was too bored to pay attention.

Posted by: Ace at 09:17 AM | Comments (354)
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1 Summoned others have been.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:19 AM (GjYxB)

2 First!?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 09:19 AM (o3MSL)

3 Lena Dunham, naked potato.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (ojnk6)

4 What a lousy job if you think you should watch SNL because of it!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (o3MSL)

5 *crickets*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (GjPnA)

6 First?

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (GQ8sn)

7 Gah!

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (GQ8sn)

8 I'm really not sure why anyone watches it anymore. Have not watched it since the NRFPT Players left.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (GjYxB)

9 Pillsbury Doughgurrl!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 10, 2014 09:20 AM (o3MSL)

10 I saw a bit of this, just because it was so heavily promoted and I figured I should watch it, just as part of my job.


If there was ever a more deserving candidate for "job lock".


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:21 AM (GQ8sn)

11 I have a dream that someday women will be judged by the content of their character, not the size of their fupa.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 10, 2014 09:22 AM (ZshNr)

12
A good place to put Libertarian Girls parody of Lena Dunham.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAkdHzpXXo0

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2014 09:23 AM (gorVZ)

13 The one with Jamie Farr!

Posted by: Sean Connery at March 10, 2014 09:23 AM (Aif/5)

14 I can honestly say I have never seen Lena Dunham in anything whatsoever, and given what I've heard about her, I think I would prefer to keep it that way.



Looks like a fatty with a need to expose herself to the public. Maybe she should have lost some weight and gone into porn.

Posted by: tcn at March 10, 2014 09:23 AM (fwcEs)

15 That was probably the least funny commercial for Planned Parenthood ever.

Posted by: NSA at March 10, 2014 09:23 AM (fWAjv)

16 Slower I was, this time. But yeah, she was poorly received. As was her Twitter performance afterwards... http://tinyurl.com/npmll93

Posted by: Brother Cavil, found THOSE mags at March 10, 2014 09:23 AM (naUcP)

17 I'm really not sure why anyone watches it anymore. Have not watched it since the NRFPT Players left Then again, that's about the time I hit legal drinking age and had better things to do on a Saturday night......

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:24 AM (GjYxB)

18 Damn. Crusty three day old sock.

Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 09:25 AM (fWAjv)

19 When Killam leaves, the show is going to get so, so bad.

Posted by: Big T Party at March 10, 2014 09:25 AM (tE2TK)

20 am, among other things, a feminist and a pro-lifer, and IÂ’m okay with people telling jokes about feminists and pro-lifers



This is a side issue,   but   it's impossible to be a feminist AND a pro-lifer.   Not if you're using the modern definition of "feminist," which equates to, "Supports    a   woman's right to have as many free abortions as she wants, any time,  without any consequences."

Just saying.



Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:26 AM (4df7R)

21 Lena Dunham signed up to do a season of 'Naked and Afraid'


only she's gotta lose 20 lbs and / or they're gonna make the blurred parts bigger

Posted by: Charles Algernon Swinburne at March 10, 2014 09:26 AM (omBWL)

22 I watched it and made snarky comments on Saturdays Overnight Thread. Awful show. Awful people. My watching SNL is similar to not being able to divert your eyes from a fatal accident. Trainwreck pure and simple.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 10, 2014 09:26 AM (32Ze2)

23 "The Message. Girls good, h8rs bad." 

Isn't this a message that sells itself?  Thanks, ensign obvious for adding that life-altering profound observation to the dialogue. 

I am thankful that my inclinations to not watch SNL, with or without this one-trick pony, have proven worthy.

Thanks for taking one for the team, Ace.

Posted by: flounder at March 10, 2014 09:26 AM (Kkt/i)

24 Not to mention, the lowest rated SNL that night.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (IXrOn)

25 I'm trying to remember the last time that I deliberately sat down to watch SNL. It had to be back in the Carvey/Hartman days.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (659DL)

26 Lena Dunham, naked, tattooed potato. Posted by: ManWithNoParty ------------------ FIFY

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (aDwsi)

27 I wouldn't hit it with a 2x4

Posted by: Dice at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (Q6pxP)

28 I'm assuming her nudity is an in-your-face fat, homely girls are comfortable in their fat sacks statement. There is no other reason for her to ever be nudeÂ…in public.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (A98Xu)

29 Ace, Thanks for watching it for us. I havenÂ’t watched SNL in years and donÂ’t like Girls. I think it is one of the dumbest shows HBO has & I havenÂ’t watched any HBO series since The Sopranos. Showtime series are great. My older brother kept telling me I would like Shameless but I didnÂ’t watch. I had Showtime on earlier this year and it was on & sounded entertaining. I watched all three previous seasons and then started watching this season. ItÂ’s funny & dark. Dexter is another show that I never watched until the end of the 2012 season. I watched all of them on demand & loved it. IÂ’m glad I watched them like that because it was suspenseful and I didnÂ’t have to wait a week for the next one. Ray Donovan & Masters of Sex are very good too.

Posted by: Carol at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (z4WKX)

30 the left-wing P.C. equivalent of the equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men. "Equally bogus," yet supported by ample evidence.

Posted by: jakeman at March 10, 2014 09:27 AM (vH4YP)

31

Thank you, Ace, for not posting any visual aids.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (DrWcr)

32 SNL still does good ratings -- even these low Lena ratings are still pretty good. On broadcast TV it got the highest 18-49 ratings. 3.25M viewers. 1% of America. But it's the whole Flattering of the Chattering angle. SNL has a reputation of a show you need to stay up to date with to be part of the "cultural zeitgeist". I haven't purposefully watched in years, but when a sketch goes viral I see it.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (ZPrif)

33 "Of course, later in the show, they featured a sketch in which a "male rights activist" was shown to be a loser h8r without troubling themselves to add any actual comedy to the piece." Reminds me of the "Gay Civil War Soldiers" sketch they did back during Clinton's term and the implementation of DADT. A little humor here and there, but the last minute or so made no attempt at humor on any level. Not that it was humor that I just didn't find funny, it was just flat out cheerleading Clinton. No jokes, no comedic delivery, nothing but a message.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (gBnkX)

34 Last time watching SNL for me had to be the Chris Farley Chippendale sketch.

Posted by: flounder at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (Kkt/i)

35 Who?

Posted by: obligatory at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (QupBk)

36 Lena Dunham signed up to do a season of 'Naked and Afraid'


only she's gotta lose 20 lbs


The first day.


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (GQ8sn)

37 Meh. But I don't think the target here was the Bible. *** I agree. Had it been I would have turned it off instantly. Instead, it was just really, really unfunny. The entire show, with the exception of the opening bit with Neeson, was terribly unfunny. I don't think I laughed even once.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (DmNpO)

38 I mean, it's not a funny sketch, certainly. It just references Dunham's most famous role and puts that character in a different context. Meh. But I don't think the target here was the Bible.



Of course, what that means is that SNL wasn't expecting a very big audience,   because only people who watch "Girls" would give a rat's ass about watching Lena Dunham host the   show.     


Only a handful of people watch "Girls" in the first place.   Take that handful, cut it in half (because just watching a show doesn't mean you're going to slavishly follow it's 'star' wherever she goes) and then cut THAT in half    because a lot of people gave up on SNL long ago, and bingo.  You've got shitty ratings for a shitty show that jumped the   political shark ten years ago.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (4df7R)

39 Lena Dunham signed up to do a season of 'Naked and Afraid' Shouldn't that be "Naked and Scary"?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:28 AM (659DL)

40 equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men.

Based on my own personal experience, I'd say most people who call themselves feminists are shrill.

Based on my own personal experience, I'd say most people who call themselves feminists are very unattractive physically.

I don't know about the "resentment at their failure to get men" part.  It seems to me a lot of feminists were weaponized by professors in college.  Not being able to get men is often the result of their mindthoughts and mouthwords afterwards. 

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:29 AM (P7Wsr)

41 only she's gotta lose 20 lbs and / or they're gonna make the blurred parts bigger Posted by: Charles ------------------- Her daddy likes 'em bigger..., in case you haven't seen his paintings.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 10, 2014 09:29 AM (aDwsi)

42 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THIS AN "ALL POP CULTURE" DAY ON THE BLOG.

Just sayin'...this shit is so much more entertaining than the 1,000,000th "god Obama is awful, inny?" story, which I've read on Hot Air anyway.  And I get the feeling that you enjoy them more too.

Posted by: Jeff B., RINO emeritus at March 10, 2014 09:29 AM (ewYO6)

43 30 the left-wing P.C. equivalent of the equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men.

"Equally bogus," yet supported by ample evidence.

Posted by: jakeman at March 10, 2014 01:27 PM (vH4YP)

 

Two words: Andrea Dworkin.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 10, 2014 09:29 AM (DrWcr)

44 Highest for Saturday primetime, 18-49. Which is generally the worst night for television. Especially for younger viewers since they are doing stuff.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:29 AM (ZPrif)

45 36
Lena Dunham signed up to do a season of 'Naked and Afraid'

only she's gotta lose 20 lbs

The first day.
Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:28 PM (GQ8sn)


So she'll skip breakfast.

Posted by: flounder at March 10, 2014 09:30 AM (Kkt/i)

46 I believe the inverse of Rule 34 applies here, thankfully

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 10, 2014 09:30 AM (0Jb7F)

47 Tom Nichols ‏@TheWarRoom_Tom Things to take away from #Snowden today: 1. He's a messed-up narcissist who had no idea what he was doing. 2. That's it.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:30 AM (ZPrif)

48 Meanwhile Kate Upton threatens lawsuit over fake topless photo.  And apparently one of the photos has even been airbrushed according to her lawyers.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (m1gXb)

49 Never watch.  Surprised SNL has an audience.
Writing is tuurible.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (aUQgu)

50 The better question is why does NBC still air it? As discussed in the other thread, loser shows are kept on because it is aimed at a demographic they are trying to attract. Failure means nothing. SNL is still gets buzz and that also why it continues to limp along.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (r7mtu)

51 Oh! And I had commented and tweeted about taking bets on Dunham getting naked on SNL. I really, actually, never thought she would. I was being a smartass because, well, that's in large part what she's known for doing. The fact that she doesn't hesitate to get nekkid in front of strangers is more than a little odd and seems to jump at any opportunity to do so.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (DmNpO)

52 Excuse me Lena.  Do you have any good looking friends?

Posted by: Bill from Chappaqua at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (Q6pxP)

53 There is no other reason for her to ever be nudeÂ…in public.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 10, 2014 01:27 PM (A98Xu)



Pretty much true of everyone, IMO.

Posted by: tcn at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (fwcEs)

54 the equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men. Don't know about the third charge, but the first two ain't bogus.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (7ObY1)

55

It just references Dunham's most famous role and puts that character in a different context.

 

Does she have any other role?  I always presumed she was a dumpy woman parlaying her one show into a lifetime of semi-fame (the late, great SPY magazine called this phenomenon "coasting.")

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (zF6Iw)

56 Highest for Saturday primetime, 18-49. Which is generally the worst night for television. Especially for younger viewers since they are doing stuff.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 01:29 PM (ZPrif)


How the Hell does SNL count as prime time?  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:31 AM (4df7R)

57 Planned Parenthood provides affordable, quality care to millions of women, and especially to some of our most underserved communities. Dunham's laser-sharp attack on those who would oppose such charity constitutes wit unequalled since the days of Jonathan Swift.

Posted by: Sheila Marks at March 10, 2014 09:32 AM (eMP2S)

58 Just to spice it up. Carolla's snippet on fat girls kinda relates to the Dunham. Adam Carolla slams LeftÂ’s fat girl double standard http://tinyurl.com/l6mzajs

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 09:32 AM (IXrOn)

59 That h8er sketch was a Planned Parenthood commercial thru and thru. PP was billed as Womens Health Services and the noodle armed man was over the top in his depiction of a conservative man acting boorish and looking foolish

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 10, 2014 09:32 AM (32Ze2)

60 SNL should have died when Hartman died.

Posted by: Soona at March 10, 2014 09:32 AM (y92mV)

61 O/T and reposted from dead thread:   BTW, HBO is having a Deadwood marathon on Sat, 3/15/14. Every episode of all seasons. If you haven't seen Deadwood, you missed a great show.  Swearingen!

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at March 10, 2014 09:32 AM (6fg3O)

62 SNL is the Doonesbury of television: You pay attention to it because you're expected to, not because you want to.

Posted by: joncelli at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (RD7QR)

63 I haven't watched SNL since Beluchi and friends were on it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (t3UFN)

64 Huh, Lena Dunham in the wig looks like a younger, fatter Tina Fey. 

Posted by: huerfano at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (bAGA/)

65 Two words: Andrea Dworkin.


http://tinyurl.com/lty8y5r

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (P7Wsr)

66 ...the show is never funny, and has not even been intermittently funny for about five or six years now. Five or six years? Try two or three decades. The few bright spots were when they had the crew from SCTV on for a few years. There's only one way to watch it and laugh: get extremely stoned first.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (0HooB)

67 Every few months I try to watch SNL, hoping maybe it's gotten better. And every few months after 2 or 3 sketches I walk away thinking, what the fuck happened to this show.

I could live with it if it were liberal AND funny....but liberal and UN-funny doesn't work.

How this thing stays on the air is a mystery. Then again it's Saturday at 11:30, not much else to replace it.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (0LHZx)

68 Oh, and they've mixed it up! Now the requisite fat player is a girl.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (DmNpO)

69 I have a skit concept for them. Have a video museum with videos exhibits such as 1) the Pope saying Mass 2) a bear crapping in the woods 3) the sun rising in the east 4) Lena Dunham getting naked.

Posted by: Roy at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (tiOTz)

70 You wanted Lena Horne You'' take Lena Olin You'll get Lena Dunham

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (7ObY1)

71 Saturday Night LiveÂ’ Ratings Down With Lena Dunham As Host http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/saturday-night-live-ratings-down-with-lena-dunham-as-host/

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 10, 2014 09:33 AM (r7mtu)

72 Jay Leno was burying Letterman and the ABC guy every night.  It was like Fox vs. uhh ... how did Sarah Palin put it ... MSLSD.   And then, it all went away ... Jay was replaced by SNL lightweights .... gone ... gone with the wind.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 09:34 AM (JBggj)

73 eMP2S

Step away from the ledge, please. Or not.

Posted by: flounder at March 10, 2014 09:34 AM (Kkt/i)

74 Geez Ace, thanks for watching TV for us this weekend. I haven't seen SNL in years. And I really don't miss it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 10, 2014 09:34 AM (HVff2)

75 That's all SNL has ever been. They have a rotating host, and the show is a lot of insider jokes about this week's celebrity.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 09:34 AM (Y92Nd)

76 There are some pro-life activists who are misogynists Except this is illogical. The implication is that they don't want women to have such power, but would allow men to have it. Yet I see no advocacy groups for fathers or husbands deciding if 'their' women can have abortions. We do see lots of abortion groups that rail about overpopulation and people who choose to have mentally retarded babies. In short, the difference between the two sides is extreme abortion people really do like child murder.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 10, 2014 09:34 AM (QMRMM)

77 25 I'm trying to remember the last time that I deliberately sat down to watch SNL. It had to be back in the Carvey/Hartman days. Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 01:27 PM (659DL)

A lot of the SNL comedians from those days are solid libertarians now, it is refreshing. I have no hope for the Fey / Ferrel / Fallon SNL class doing the same, especially since so many of them are willing to be willing participants in Obama propaganda.

Tiny Furniture, the film that helped Lena get her Girls show in the first place, is on Netflix. Still debating of whether or not to watch it; anyone else done so?

Posted by: LizLem at March 10, 2014 09:34 AM (BF+2f)

78 I always try to watch SNL when Justin Timberlake is on. He might be the best host ever.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (DmNpO)

79 SNL is still gets buzz and that also why it continues to limp along.

It doesn't really, though.  It's nowhere near the buzz factor of something like True Detective or Sherlock.

I saw a Tweet about this episode I really liked, to the effect of "I DVRed this solely to see The National (the musical guest), NBC please disregard the ratings otherwise".  Musical guests are pretty much the only reason I've gone anywhere near SNL since the last Celebrity Jeopardy aired.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (B/VB5)

80 These networks should spend their money on these mini series. If they flop, no sequel. You cut your losses and try something else.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (r7mtu)

81 One of the silliest aspects of the Left's abortion narrative is that eeeeevil men are desperately trying to make wymennnz have OMG! babies!!!! The fact is that women are more likely than men to be pro-life. My 23 yr old son, who doesn't bother to go to church, has found time to join a pro-life group at his university --- and I know why. Okay, maybe it's not a great place to pick up EASY women, but it's a great place to pick up good-looking girls you'd like to hang out with.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (dfYL9)

82 the left-wing P.C. equivalent of the equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men. "Equally bogus," yet supported by ample evidence.


Wrong.   Feminists ARE shrill -- every last one of them.   They are, by and large, unattractive, because they deliberately make themselves unattractive so as to "stick it to the patriarchy."  And yes, there are a fair few who preach feminism because they   know they're  too ugly and too    shallow to ever find a man.   Rather than attempting to identify their own character flaws and try to grow as a person, these feminists instead choose to blame their crushing loneliness on the male-dominated world.     



Conservatives understand   lefties a shitload better than lefties understand us.  That means our stereotypes of them   are based    on     actual observation and experience    rather than      blithering fever dreams of pathological hatred.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (4df7R)

83 I just watched a small amount of the male activist sketch - was it racist?  the loud over the top stupid latin girl character seemed like the sort of thing that would get called racist

Posted by: chelsea danger at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (KfDDN)

84 75 That's all SNL has ever been. Well not all it's ever been. See: 1975-1980

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (7ObY1)

85 You wanted Lena Horne
You'' take Lena Olin
You'll get Lena Dunham

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 01:33 PM (7ObY1)



It's supposed to be:


You want...


You'll settle for...


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Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (GQ8sn)

86 63 I haven't watched SNL since Beluchi and friends were on it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 10, 2014 01:33 PM (t3UFN)


____________


You missed a lot of good stuff by Will Ferrel, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey....that era (1990ish to 1998ish) was a lot funner than the Belushi era IMO.


I wasn't old enough to watch the Belushi era, but the little I have seen in re-runs or online,  I dunno, I just don't find it that funny. Could be a generational things I guess. Some comedy only works at a certain time and place.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (0LHZx)

87 ""When "Adam" says that she was made from his rib, she objects "That's so sexist!""





Probably because she doesn't know the entire story. God told adam he was going to make his prefect mate to be his perfect partner in life, one that would honor him and respect him. Adam asked what the cost would be for the perfect soul mate. God informed him it would cost his right eye, an arm, and a leg. Adam thought about it for a minute and then said " Thats a little high, what can I get for a rib?"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2014 09:35 AM (FMbng)

88 what the fuck is The National anyway?

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:36 AM (7ObY1)

89 They have a rotating host, and the show is a lot of insider jokes about this week's celebrity.

Murphy Brown reference pr0n.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:36 AM (P7Wsr)

90 I always try to watch SNL when Justin Timberlake is on. He might be the best host ever.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 01:35 PM (DmNpO)



Soup!  There it is!

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:36 AM (GQ8sn)

91 The Tonight Show is as close to unwatchable as SNL at this point. I enjoyed Leno and watched often. Have given Jimmy a chance but he is just not that funny.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 10, 2014 09:36 AM (32Ze2)

92

Last time watching SNL for me had to be the Chris Farley Chippendale sketch.

-

So, this episode was identical, except for the dancing.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (0Jb7F)

93 It's supposed to be: You want... You'll settle for... You'll get... Jumpin' Jesus on a jackhammer, now we have Meme Nazi's?

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (7ObY1)

94

Lena Dunham is known as the fat girl who shows off her tits and tats on HBO.  That's about the extent of her talent, so no, she isn't going to help the show along.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Sick of the Snowplow Bills for the Outrage Outlet - Bring Me The Head Of Al Gore! at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (hLRSq)

95 Actually, I was wrong about the SNL Dunham ratings. Those were the ratings for the repeat at 10 PM. Dunham's live show did twice as good in the 18-49 demo. Can't find the total viewers #. It was far and away the #1 show on Saturday in 18-49 and, I think, in total viewers.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (ZPrif)

96 rotating host?

So they tie the host to a spit and slowly roast them?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (m1gXb)

97 I always try to watch SNL when Justin Timberlake is on. He might be the best host ever. I...what?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (659DL)

98 There are some pro-life activists who are who are misogynists who resent womenÂ’s equality; there are some pro-choice feminists who are shrill and motivated by resentment against men.
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I think the definition of "some" this fellow is using is sub-optimal.

You won't find a single fucking prominent pro-life person who is a "misogynists who resent womenÂ’s equality."

But, you will find a whole shitload of prominent pro-murder feminists who are shrill and motivated by resentment against men.

Stupid "pox on both their houses" bullshit.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (VjL9S)

99
Jumpin' Jesus on a jackhammer, now we have Meme Nazi's?

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 01:37 PM (7ObY1)


LOL!  


I wasn't trying to bust your balls.

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (GQ8sn)

100 Lena Dunham is what happens when God has a hangover.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 10, 2014 09:37 AM (oFCZn)

101 I'd hit it... 

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (GjPnA)

102

I'm really not sure why anyone watches it anymore.

Posted by: Ace at 01:17 PM

Because a) it's "cool" and cool people watch it; and b) a lot people watch it in case it is funny - don't want to miss a culturally important moment.

People watch it out of obligation - either the obligation.  Nobody watches it because it is good.

In fact, going back to the very beginning, it wasn't really that funny ever.  It was funnier, but it was never really a solid show.  It was edgy and new when it first started and had some funny sketches. Usually about 20% of the show was actually funny.  Then, a bunch of its original cast made it big in movies.

It lived off that for years, then had a slight revival with Eddy Murphy, where again, about 15% of any particular show was funny.

But really, what is its competition for that time-slot?  As long as it can keep the cast's salaries down, the show can run in perpetuity and always have ebbs and flows of being "funny".

And, by funny, I mean a few chuckles per show.  Nobody can point to a single episode of SNL that was as consistently funny as, for instance, a decent episode of Seinfeld, or early 30 Rock, or early Modern Family.

But then, if it was easy, everyone would do it.

Posted by: Monkeytoe at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (sOx93)

103 @97: He's not wrong.  Timberlake brought us "Dick in a Box", after all.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (B/VB5)

104

I haven't watched SNL since the good old days when you could sit with friends, get drunk, and laugh your asses off.

 

It's been a long time.

Posted by: Cheri at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (G+Wff)

105

You wanted Lena Horne

You'll  take Lena Olin

You'll get Lena Dunham

 

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 01:33 PM (7ObY1)

 

Speaking of Lena Horne:

 

http://tinyurl.com/pj7bqbp


 

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (zF6Iw)

106 Adam's failed to put Eve in check wrt to the forbidden fruit. As a result, we have women like this Dunham creature.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (36Rjy)

107 Conservatives understand lefties a shitload better than lefties understand us. That means our stereotypes of them are based on actual observation and experience rather than blithering fever dreams of pathological hatred. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 10, 2014 01:35 PM --------------- Cut and pasted into my 'keeper' file

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (aDwsi)

108 I...what? ** Yes. Believe it or not.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:38 AM (DmNpO)

109 SNL's ratings were down with Dunham, but still easily was the highest rated show of the night.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:39 AM (ZPrif)

110 He's not wrong. Timberlake brought us "Dick in a Box", after all.


That was Adam Sandberg's joke, I think. 


That and "Motherlover".   Gross but hilarious.


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:39 AM (GQ8sn)

111 Conservatives understand lefties a shitload better than lefties understand us. That means our stereotypes of them are based on actual observation and experience rather than blithering fever dreams of pathological hatred projection. FIFY.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:39 AM (GjYxB)

112 Ace-

You could have kept only the first and last sentences of your post, and it still would have pretty much covered the subject just as well...

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 10, 2014 09:39 AM (wtvvX)

113 Goofy white people rapping was old the minute the first person did it. Hey look kids -- OPPO ZOPPO!!!!!!

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (VhqUZ)

114 I can happily say I would be unable to pick Lena Dunham out of a line up, and I've never seen her naked. The only thing I remember about her is she has bad taste in clothing, but that's still better than nude.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (Y92Nd)

115 Have given Jimmy a chance but he is just not that funny. Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 10, 2014 01:36 PM (32Ze2) Craig Ferguson is the funniest guy on late night. And he ain't liberal--he goes out of his way to poke them sharply about all kinds of things.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (659DL)

116 I think the definition of "some" this fellow is using is sub-optimal. It's a bit like saying, 'there are some Ukranians who want to invade Russia and there are some Russians who want to invade the Ukraine. Both sides need to take a step back."

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (QMRMM)

117 I'd just stop with Lena Olin  and her hat.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (JBggj)

118 None of their 'jokes' about the right are actually jokes anymore. It's why the left hasn't really been funny in about 10 years. It's why I quit watching Jon Stewart way back around 2004 because nothing was actually funny, it was just a bunch of childish insults.

Posted by: Lea at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (lIU4e)

119 I can tell by the tone in your voice that there is a twinge of surprise.



Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (BZAd3)

120 I mentioned this on the previous    thread,   but Lena's response   to the poor reception her little hosting gig   on SNL received on Twitter was to make a joke about incest.   Because she's CLASS, folks.   Pure class.


TWITCHY:  http://tinyurl.com/npmll93



The tweet to which she was responding (talking about   how she got nekkid during SNL, because that's all she knows how to do):


@Bobbythornton you don't always have to get naked



Her response:


@lenadunham Please tell that to my uncle, mister. He's been making me!



The future of feminism, folks!      This is the woman our girls are supposed to look up to, for some inexplicable reason!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:40 AM (4df7R)

121 Fat Bottom girls you make the rockin' world go 'round...

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (7ObY1)

122 Campaign for a Leaner Dunham!

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (ZshNr)

123 Lena Horne, 1943, singing Stormy Weather.
http://youtu.be/QCG3kJtQBKo

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (m1gXb)

124 It's like the Simpsons, who the fuck watches those shows anymore?

You're supposed to be funny, you have one fucking job--and you can't even do that.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (VjL9S)

125 There's little reason to watch it live though. Everybody knows you can expect a max of one or two funny sketches a show. Whatever sketches are funny will be passed around social media the next day and week. It's not like sports. A live comedy sketch will still be funny 24 hours later.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (ZPrif)

126 Mike Hammer, Who is Lena's father?

Posted by: Carol at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (z4WKX)

127 Amy Schumer makes the same risque jokes, with one notable difference: Schumer is funny.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:41 AM (7ObY1)

128 Swearingen! Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at March 10, 2014 01:32 PM (6fg3O) Outstanding TV show. Wish they had gone on another season or two.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 10, 2014 09:42 AM (LKJt3)

129 Amy Schumer makes the same risque jokes, with one notable difference: Schumer is funny ** I just don't like her.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:42 AM (DmNpO)

130 Two words: Andrea Dworkin.
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A neck that shit out a tumor of teeth and hair.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 09:42 AM (VjL9S)

131 DIE CHRISTIANS! STOP OPPRESSING MEEEE!

Posted by: SNL opening sketch, 2017 at March 10, 2014 09:42 AM (QMRMM)

132

Sort of on topic...I got XM radio with a new car, which means that I'm listening to Howard Stern again, and he is the best interviewer ever (*nods at Terri Gross, you're good too girl*). 

 

The reason that this is a problem is that he is obsessed with SNL and Lorne Michaels and when he interviews cast members he makes the whole thing sound really important and compelling.  I have to keep reminding myself that every time I accidentally watch it I don't accidentally laugh. 

 

He did the same thing to me last week with Chelsea Handler.  Riotous interview.  I had had had to watch her show.  Which turned out to suck.  Making sucky people interesting is a double edged sword.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 10, 2014 09:42 AM (A0sHn)

133 I wasn't old enough to watch the Belushi era, but the little I have seen in re-runs or online, I dunno, I just don't find it that funny. Could be a generational things I guess. Some comedy only works at a certain time and place. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 01:35 PM (0LHZx) Only you, would not find Belushi, Akroyd, et al not funny.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 10, 2014 09:42 AM (HVff2)

134 My wife, the church lady extrodinaire, watched the Eden sketch on a Buzzfeed video.  She thought it was funny.  So did I, and I am more aware of the 'Girls' thingie than she is.

Mayhaps we over-think stuff too much sometimes.

Posted by: trainer's looking for a Militia to join... at March 10, 2014 09:43 AM (n4ArD)

135

Lena Horne, 1943, singing Stormy Weather.

 

She and Orson Welles were lovers for a time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 10, 2014 09:43 AM (zF6Iw)

136 ace you have recently and frequently shared an opinion that a lot the criticism of those that are protesting the portrayal of religion or specifically The Judeo/Christian faith , are misplaced. Did a Jehovah's Witness come to your house and piss you off of something?

Posted by: Jesus the Gardener not the Savior at March 10, 2014 09:43 AM (jl269)

137 "equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men." I'm willing to renounce this potential stereotype if someone can produce for me a non-shrill feminist article with an accompanying pic of the author. As someone else so astutely pointed out, the failure to get men angle is more an effect, rather than cause.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 10, 2014 09:43 AM (gBnkX)

138 I'd just stop with Lena Olin and her hat. The Unbearable Lightness of Beating Off to a Paused DVD.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (GXZgZ)

139 Dunham replied, “I sort of object to the notion that characters have to be likeable. I feel like I don’t like most of my friends, I love them, and that’s the same way that I feel about the characters I write. I think it’s really important to have characters on television who are sort of ambiguous and complex the way that people are, especially female characters because so often women are sort of relegated to sassy best friend, or ingénue, or evil, job-stealing be-yatch. It’s really nice to work somewhere in the middle.” she says the lives as portrayed in Girls are realistic, in her experience. That's the whole point. Perhaps she is not as narcissistic as her character, but I think she is. A perusal of her tweets shows that.

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (zOTsN)

140 115 Have given Jimmy a chance but he is just not that funny.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 10, 2014 01:36 PM (32Ze2)

Craig Ferguson is the funniest guy on late night. And he ain't liberal--he goes out of his way to poke them sharply about all kinds of things.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 01:40 PM (659DL)


Absofuckinglutely agree. That damned gay robot is funny as hell.

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (wtvvX)

141 >>> 53 There is no other reason for her to ever be nudeÂ…in public.

Or private!

Posted by: Never Nudes at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (BF+2f)

142 Check out the screenshot for SNL's "Biblical Movie" on this page:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ksdtf4f

Look at her left side!  It's shoulder, stomach roll, then rump fat.  What's the appeal?  A four on the hotness scale, with a foul mouth and mind, who's "proud" of her body.  Seems like this is a "fat pride" female gaze kinda stunt more than talent.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (P7Wsr)

143 I'ld rather hit one of Jeff Dunham's puppets

Posted by: phreshone at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (Q6pxP)

144 And now the 'Tonight" show has gone hard left also. The entertainment industry and the universities all need a good cleansing.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (t3UFN)

145 It's like the Simpsons, who the fuck watches those shows anymore?

That's one I really don't understand.  Everyone, left, right, center, libertarian, whatever, agrees that the Simpsons hasn't been funny for at least a decade (and more like 15 years), but somehow Fox, the network famous for their big red "CANCEL" button, keeps letting it live.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2014 09:44 AM (B/VB5)

146 ot- a woman caller on Rush's show, right now ( already received an Audit letter from the IRS, and they have not even submitted their taxes, yet. She says they always use a tax service, and the only thing she can think of is her husband donated to Romney... holymolyifthat'strue

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 09:45 AM (IXrOn)

147 I'ld rather hit one of Jeff Dunham's puppets Posted by: phreshone at March 10, 2014 01:44 PM (Q6pxP) Say what?

Posted by: Achmed at March 10, 2014 09:45 AM (t3UFN)

148 Only you, would not find Belushi, Akroyd, et al not funny. Samuri Delicatessen, Coneheads, Jane, you ignorant slut, Pepsi Chips. Comedy gold.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:45 AM (GjYxB)

149 She and Orson Welles were lovers for a time.

Lucky Orson...  Nanoo Nanoo!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:45 AM (m1gXb)

150 Nice comments ace. I find it sad that this skank has a TV show and is looked up to by "girls/women" in our society. Outside her character she, bottom line, is a narcissist ho bag tattooed skank. Would you want your son to marry her? How attractive are those tattoos going to be when she is 50, if her fat ass lives that long?

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2014 09:45 AM (0FSuD)

151 14 I can honestly say I have never seen Lena Dunham in anything whatsoever, and given what I've heard about her, I think I would prefer to keep it that way. Looks like a fatty with a need to expose herself to the public. Maybe she should have lost some weight and gone into porn. Posted by: tcn at March 10, 2014 01:23 PM (fwcEs) She wouldn't need to lose weight to go into porn since there is a genre of porn featuring the umm, "bigger ladies". Or so I have heard.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 09:45 AM (HxSXm)

152

Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert use the "If I smirk and make funny faces while saying something lame they will really laugh!" gambit and it gets old real fast. 

 

To me their "humor" is sixth grade at best and they work too hard to try and make it funny.

Posted by: Cheri at March 10, 2014 09:46 AM (G+Wff)

153 "Nobody can point to a single episode of SNL that was as consistently funny as, for instance, a decent episode of Seinfeld, or early 30 Rock, or early Modern Family." Believe it or not, the Roseanne Barr / Dee Lite episode was entertaining from beginning to end.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 09:46 AM (Y92Nd)

154 91 The Tonight Show is as close to unwatchable as SNL at this point. I enjoyed Leno and watched often. Have given Jimmy a chance but he is just not that funny. Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 10, 2014 01:36 PM (32Ze2) --------------------- I haven't seen Fallon's Tonight Show so I don't know about that. What I've heard confirms your view. Just not funny. Can't do a monologue. I do think he is a great mimic. His Bob Dylan, for example, is priceless. He even gets the harmonica playing down pat.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2014 09:46 AM (dfYL9)

155 It was far and away the #1 show on Saturday in 18-49 and, I think, in total viewers.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 01:37 PM (ZPrif)



And was the second lowest rated   episode of SNL of the year   across households and the 18-49 crowd.       So what does that say about the   popularity of    Saturday programming?


The fact of the matter is   it was a clunking failure.   People tuned in for the musical guest  and to see what all the fuss was about  regarding    Lena Dunham.  They walked away   unimpressed.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:46 AM (4df7R)

156 Good news, ace, I think eye transplants are mandated under Obamacare, with you having to gouge them out after watching Dunham and SNL simultaneously.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at March 10, 2014 09:46 AM (O0Xcu)

157 The Unbearable Lightness of Beating Off to a Paused DVD. TMI.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:47 AM (GjYxB)

158

I think SNL was legitmately funny more than otherwise during the Will Ferrell/Dana Carvey/adam sandler/chris rock, etc years. There is a reason most of that crew became big names.

 

I still remember some pretty decent skits about the riots in LA. The other skit show that aired at the same time was always a bit edgier though (what was it called?).

Posted by: Lea at March 10, 2014 09:47 AM (lIU4e)

159 Samuri Delicatessen, Coneheads, Jane, you ignorant slut, Pepsi Chips. Comedy gold.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 01:45 PM (GjYxB)



Bass-o-matic!



Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:47 AM (GQ8sn)

160 Speaking of humor being subjective and all of that, I was pondering Bridesmaids and why some people think its hilarious and others are horrified. At least to me, it's because it's mean natured humiliation. I very much dislike watching people get humiliated and when it seems to be mean, well, count me out. The flip side of that would be The 40 Year Old Virgin which I can only watch in about 10-15 minute bits but is very very funny and it's also clear that these people are friends and do care for each other and it's not mean spirited at all. That makes all the difference in the world. My exception to all of that would be Bad Teacher which I watched based on ace's comments about it and, yes, that is vicious and cruel but it's Cameron Diaz being vicious and cruel to herself. Plus the send up of the Earnest Noble Teacher is brilliant and biting and perfect. Very funny movie. So, to sum up, I miss the land shark.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 10, 2014 09:47 AM (VtjlW)

161 Only you, would not find Belushi, Akroyd, et al not funny.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 10, 2014 01:42 PM (HVff2)


_________


Right. Because **YOU** liked them, that means anyone who doesn't like them is wrong. Got it.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 09:48 AM (0LHZx)

162 150 Nice comments ace. I find it sad that this skank has a TV show and is looked up to by "girls/women" in our society. Is she, though? Her career feels 'forced' to me - her show gets lousy ratings, yet everybody gushes over her. Hell, Howard Stern apologized for calling her fat. It's like she's a bastard child of a Sinatra or something.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 10, 2014 09:48 AM (QMRMM)

163 So, to sum up, I miss the land shark.

And Ghostshark, Lavashark, and Meteorshark. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:48 AM (m1gXb)

164 My exception to all of that would be Bad Teacher which I watched based on ace's comments about it and, yes, that is vicious and cruel but it's Cameron Diaz being vicious and cruel to herself. Plus the send up of the Earnest Noble Teacher is brilliant and biting and perfect. Very funny movie. *** I really liked Bad Teacher. Diaz's character is just rotten to the core and makes no apologies about it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:48 AM (DmNpO)

165 Never recall hearing of this gal before this SNL thing. Don't gots me no HBO where I live.

Posted by: Rcardo Kill at March 10, 2014 09:49 AM (gOoFi)

166 The other skit show that aired at the same time was always a bit edgier though (what was it called?). Mad TV. And yes, it was usually better. Will Sasso doing a Kenny Rogers "Jackass" takeoff is one of the funniest things that I have ever seen.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:49 AM (659DL)

167 159 Samuri Delicatessen, Coneheads, Jane, you ignorant slut, Pepsi Chips. Comedy gold. Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 01:45 PM (GjYxB) Bass-o-matic! Irving Mainway The Wild & Crazy Guys Candy Slice Heavy Sarcasm Lord & Lady Douchebag X-Police

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:49 AM (7ObY1)

168 Have given Jimmy a chance but he is just not that funny.
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I don't know why people think "watch me smirk and almost laugh at my own weak-ass joke" is HI-larious.

Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys has more funny in him.
Shit, Philadelphia Phil is funnier.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 09:49 AM (VjL9S)

169 Speaking of... I think folks are way too harsh on Miss Diaz. I think she's talented and I've never heard her say anything out of line.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:49 AM (DmNpO)

170 "Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 01:45 PM (IXrOn)" I got an audit letter from the IRS in 2013 for a tax return from 7 years prior saying I didn't file, when I know I did and I paid what I owed. I firmly believe it's because I registered R for the first time in years (was "I" for longest time) prior to the 2012 election. I think the harassment of conservative groups is only the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 10, 2014 09:49 AM (gBnkX)

171 Craig Ferguson is the funniest guy on late night. And he ain't
liberal--he goes out of his way to poke them sharply about all kinds of
things. Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 01:40 PM (659DL) Absofuckinglutely agree. That damned gay robot is funny as hell. Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 10, 2014 01:44 PM (wtvvX)


He is my fave too! I love how much Craig loves being an American and has no qualms saying so. Jimmy Kimmel has grown a lot on me, he is my next fave. They just both seem so nice and down to earth.

Apparently Jimmy Fallon's ratings are now calming down after his big packed debut; anyone know where they are at or how they compare to Leno's?

Posted by: Never Nudes at March 10, 2014 09:50 AM (BF+2f)

172

the equally bogus right-wing P.C. cliché that feminists are shrill, physically unattractive, and driven into their ideology by resentment at their failure to get men.

 

 

Hello!!! . . . . McFly!!!  [thumps head like a melon]

Posted by: Biff Tannen at March 10, 2014 09:50 AM (BAS5M)

173 @158 MAD TV? Not way back to SCTV.

Posted by: Beagle at March 10, 2014 09:50 AM (sOtz/)

174 You won't find a single fucking prominent pro-life person who is a "misogynists who resent
womenÂ’s equality."



But, you will find a whole shitload of prominent pro-murder feminists who are shrill and motivated by resentment against men.




THIS THIS THIS THIS

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:50 AM (4df7R)

175 SNL died when Piscopo and Murphy left. Then Mad Tv showed up. One of the funniest skits they ever did was a Sopranos episode. Even more funny if you remember the PAX channel. http://tinyurl.com/pt3trta

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 10, 2014 09:50 AM (LKJt3)

176 >>>she says the lives as portrayed in Girls are realistic, in her experience. That's the whole point. Perhaps she is not as narcissistic as her character, but I think she is. A perusal of her tweets shows that. Oh I believe she's narcissistic. Hannah is plainly a close version of herself. But one can be aware of one's flaws and spoof them. I saw a clip on the internet of Hannah, forever preoccupied about her stupid book being published, pestering a WIDOW at a FUNERAL about what her husband did with the book before he died -- that is, had he moved on it? What was the schedule? Hannah was played as a narcissistic, self-centered idiot, and a bit cruel besides. The widow shot her down and said something like, "If i promise to look into this, will you promise to leave and never talk to me ever again?" This is obviously a joke at Hannah's expense. Her bad behavior, like Costanza's, is portrayed as human, but *bad* human, and certainly not something to be proud of.

Posted by: ace at March 10, 2014 09:50 AM (/FnUH)

177 Lena Horne, 1943, singing Stormy Weather.
http://youtu.be/QCG3kJtQBKo

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 01:41 PM (m1gXb)



Gorgeous.



Lena's always been one of my favorites.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:51 AM (4df7R)

178 "(One thing I think Dunham's critics either miss or do not confess often enough is that while Hannah is a neurotic narcissist, Dunham is aware of that fact, and makes Hannah the butt of jokes. That is, there seems to be an unexpressed belief that Dunham endorses all of Hannah's selfish, shallow dopiness, when in fact the show's position is that she is deeply flawed and quite mockable. " Ace, your analysis of this give me pause, inasmuch as it makes it appear that you give a shit.

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 09:51 AM (x3YFz)

179 Mad TV. And yes, it was usually better. Will Sasso doing a Kenny Rogers "Jackass" takeoff is one of the funniest things that I have ever seen. Their I Love Lucy skits were fucking comedy gold. And Stuart...his "Look what I can do" is STILL a catchphrase around the office.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:51 AM (7ObY1)

180 I've suggested it before but want to get Ace's approval. We should do a Girls post to coincide with the airing of an episode. It should be pretty funny. I've never seen it but would watch if we could comment on it as it airs.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:51 AM (DmNpO)

181 20 am, among other things, a feminist and a pro-lifer, and IÂ’m okay with people telling jokes about feminists and pro-lifers This is a side issue, but it's impossible to be a feminist AND a pro-lifer. Not if you're using the modern definition of "feminist," which equates to, "Supports a woman's right to have as many free abortions as she wants, any time, without any consequences." Just saying. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 10, 2014 01:26 PM (4df7R) It seems to me that there are so many sub-types (or 'waves') of feminism that the psychotic man-hating, PIV is rape, yay abortions to six months after birth types get cover from the rational "of course women should vote, own property and get paid equal money for equal work" sort of feminism that LIVs associate with the term.

Posted by: J. Random Dude at March 10, 2014 09:52 AM (8OfdL)

182 Is there anything blog commenter's don't know?

Posted by: Homer at March 10, 2014 09:52 AM (jl269)

183 In Living Color airs late at night and I still find myself LOLing at it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:52 AM (DmNpO)

184 Craig Ferguson is a talent and I need to thank commenters for repeatedly telling me he was funny. He is. However, I have a question: He's the obvious candidate for Letterman's job when Letterman retires (which will probably be in a couple of years -- if Letterman can't even beat Fallon, he'll hang it up. Who needs to be 2nd place forever?) but would Fergusson play at 11:30?

Posted by: ace at March 10, 2014 09:52 AM (/FnUH)

185 Dave Chappell show was hilarious and not PC at all until he went crazy and quit had a skit, "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong" very very funny also any skit with Rick James and the blind black man who was the head of the KKK

Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 09:52 AM (zOTsN)

186 174 You won't find a single fucking prominent pro-life person who is a "misogynists who resent womenÂ’s equality." But, you will find a whole shitload of prominent pro-murder feminists who are shrill and motivated by resentment against men. THIS THIS THIS THIS Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 10, 2014 01:50 PM (4df7R) ...and this is why I have a Spiderman thong. Penis terrorism.

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 09:52 AM (x3YFz)

187 SNL does great business. There's no point insisting it's a failure when it's consistently the #1 show on Saturday night -- even when ratings are off like with Dunham. Have Lena and Jeff Dunham teamed on a comedy show. Everybody loves vagina puppets.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:53 AM (ZPrif)

188 159 Samuri Delicatessen, Coneheads, Jane, you ignorant slut, Pepsi Chips. Comedy gold. Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 01:45 PM (GjYxB) Bass-o-matic! Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:47 PM (GQ8sn) Land Shark. Two wild and crazy guys.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2014 09:53 AM (0FSuD)

189 It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Tastes great and look at that shine.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:53 AM (0HooB)

190 >>>Ace, your analysis of this give me pause, inasmuch as it makes it appear that you give a shit. I don't care all that much but unfair and unfounded criticisms are still unfair and unfounded.

Posted by: ace at March 10, 2014 09:53 AM (/FnUH)

191 Candygram......

Posted by: Cheri at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (G+Wff)

192 Is there anything blog commenter's don't know? *** Apparently, you don't know that the answer to that question is "No", which means that your question has now thrown us into a complete tailspin because, clearly, as a commenter, you had to ask the question. That means that we do not, after all, know it all. Dang.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (DmNpO)

193 So, to sum up, I miss the land shark.

Fun fact:  K9 Police sometimes jokingly refer to their dogs as "land sharks".

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (P7Wsr)

194 Even more funny if you remember the PAX channel. That was a great bit. Thanks for reminding me.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (659DL)

195 MAD TV when it was good it was great. Much better and far more original than SNL.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (GXZgZ)

196 183 In Living Color airs late at night and I still find myself LOLing at it. I've been meaning to pick up more of the DVD sets. I do have season 1. The annoying thing is those badly dated, endless dancing sequences, even if a young J-Lo is in some of them. Homeboy Shopping Network always kills me. And Men On...was freakin hilarious. And the Head Detective, and Fire Marshall Bill...

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (7ObY1)

197 NDH, "Nevermind...." should have been appended to your post 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (m1gXb)

198 Bass-O-Matic

Posted by: Cheri at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (G+Wff)

199 and the blind black man who was the head of the KKK


Clayton Bigsby?  The first time I saw that I asked myself if this was real and actually happening.  Brilliant and gut-punchingly hilarious.


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:54 AM (GQ8sn)

200 Is she, though? Her career feels 'forced' to me - her show gets lousy ratings, yet everybody gushes over her.



And he just won the Cronkite Award!


...Oh, sorry, you mean you WEREN'T talking about Ronan Farrow?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (4df7R)

201 @180 NDH In theory I would watch Girls. Then, as the grim reality crept closer...

Posted by: Beagle at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (sOtz/)

202 And General Francisco Franco is still dead.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (m1gXb)

203 Did you see the preview for next week's Walking Dead? Little girl is playing tag with a walker. Creepy.

Posted by: The Yellow Pug at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (r7mtu)

204 So, to sum up, I miss the land shark.
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Candygram!

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (VjL9S)

205 However, I have a question: He's the obvious candidate for Letterman's job when Letterman retires (which will probably be in a couple of years -- if Letterman can't even beat Fallon, he'll hang it up. Who needs to be 2nd place forever?) *** give it to Norm MacDonald

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (DmNpO)

206 185 Dave Chappell show was hilarious Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 01:52 PM (zOTsN) Yeah, I thought he was a good dude, then he went batshit. Sad waste of talent. Seen it before: scary talented people who can't deal. They just lose it.

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (x3YFz)

207 Bass-o-matic! Irving Mainway The Wild & Crazy Guys Candy Slice Heavy Sarcasm Lord & Lady Douchebag X-Police Mr. Bill

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (GjYxB)

208 "Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert use the "If I smirk and make funny faces while saying something lame they will really laugh!" gambit and it gets old real fast." They mistakenly interpret Carson's ability to turn a bomb into something funny as only needing a smirk. They don't realize that the majority of your jokes have to be funny, that you have to be funny most of the time, and that your smirks have to be genuine. Their smirking shit is formulaic and can't make up for their deficit in the actual humor department.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (gBnkX)

209

"Girls" confirms that we are at an interesting point in our civilization.

 

A wise man once said, if you want to understand a culture, look to its music.

 

 

May you live in interesting times...

Posted by: prescient11 at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (tVTLU)

210 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 01:49 PM (DmNpO) I think she was the one that commented about Bush and rape or something. Off to google.

Posted by: Homer at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (jl269)

211 Happy Fun Ball....

Posted by: Rcardo Kill at March 10, 2014 09:55 AM (gOoFi)

212 Mad TV was some good stuff indeed.....He Look a like, like, like a man.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (0LHZx)

213 185 Dave Chappell show was hilarious. Er, like this shit! Think he could do this today without being called a racist? http://tinyurl.com/mcmt7jl

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (0FSuD)

214

The problem with Lena Dunham is her belief that people want to see her naked.  They don't.  She wants to believe that she can force people to accept her nudity as "hot" as a better looking female's nudity.  It's not.

 

I don't give a shit about anything else about the show "Girls" or Lena Dunham.  You can explain the show and her this way and that.  It all comes back to the above.  Fuck her and fuck her neo-liberal beliefs.

Posted by: MacGruber at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (XxAYS)

215 Key and Peele are funny. But I like racial and ethnic humor. Chapelle Show was funny. Almost all white comics are too afraid to do race jokes. Thankfully there are plenty of black comics willing to step up and fill that cultural vacuum.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (ZPrif)

216 I've always said, give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag and there's nothing I can't do.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (7ObY1)

217 Who can forget Homey The Clown?

OMG!  That was some funny shit.


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (GQ8sn)

218 what I found objectionable about the jewelry party skit, so much so that I fast forwarded through it, and thus all my insights are based on interpolation is that it was typical liberal pinata arguing. So there's a guy, and he shows up and has to defend his beliefs and all he does is squirm (remind anyone of how the GOP dealt with W in 2008?). Right, if I am going to be a man's rights activist, maybe I should be able to deal with a bunch of clucking hens, pecking at me for my beliefs. But to the libs who wrote the sketch, it was all about flaying someone who has no ability to fight back. I mean literally, the character is written to fail. And that's supposed to inform society about whatever that person believes. what garbage.

Posted by: oejay44cday at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (mI2F6)

219 NDH, "Nevermind...." should have been appended to your post *** Dang! Missed it!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (DmNpO)

220 I don't care all that much but unfair and unfounded criticisms are still unfair and unfounded. Posted by: ace at March 10, 2014 01:53 PM (/FnUH) touche' You're still short for an ewok.

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 09:56 AM (x3YFz)

221 Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 01:52 PM (zOTsN) 'Swapping Spouses' was hilarious.

Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (fWAjv)

222 Dang it, I cannot concentrate today, and these posts don't help! Well, they help easing the pain. Mondays and DST. Two fresh hells in one day...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, staring down Monday at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (naUcP)

223

but would Fergusson play at 11:30?

 

I don't think so.  His vibe is "we can do what we want because no one is watching us anyway".   I think the 11:30 slot is still taken Very Seriously. 

 

Fun fact:  Ferguson was in a punk bank with Peter Capaldi (the next Doctor) back in the 80s.  There are only about four people in Scotland so they all know each other.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (A0sHn)

224 Mad TV.

And yes, it was usually better. Will Sasso doing a Kenny Rogers "Jackass" takeoff is one of the funniest things that I have ever seen.
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Absolutely.

The "drink spoiled dairy products" was funny as hell.


Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (VjL9S)

225

"He was too buzzing off in his bunk.  Look!  There's honey  on the sheets!"

 

The bees  at summer camp skit w/ Elliot Gould.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (BAS5M)

226 Ferguson is too quick (and, counterintuitively nuanced) for 11:30.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (659DL)

227 I'd just stop with Lena Olin and her hat. The Unbearable Lightness of Beating Off to a Paused DVD. Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2014 01:44 PM (GXZgZ) Threadwinner.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (Y92Nd)

228 I think she was the one that commented about Bush and rape or something. Off to google. *** Dang it! Don't tell me that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (DmNpO)

229 212 Mad TV was some good stuff indeed.....He Look a like, like, like a man. LOL, remember the one where sh's going through customs? "Do you have anything to declare?" "Just the pot." Then she writes a doctor's note right in front of him.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 09:57 AM (7ObY1)

230 Er, like this shit! Think he could do this today without being called a racist?

http://tinyurl.com/mcmt7jl

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2014 01:56 PM (0FSuD)



Oh jesus!!!!!!   That was one of the best skits ever!


"The world's richest man is known simply as...Tron."



Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:58 AM (GQ8sn)

231 MWR, yep Lena Horne was one classy dame.  The movie where she costars with Rochester is pretty fun.   Ol Satan hisself sics her on Rochester's character to lead him astray.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 09:58 AM (m1gXb)

232 and I thought the goofy white people rap was quite pleasant. Nice little rythmic thing they had going.

Posted by: oejay44cday at March 10, 2014 09:58 AM (mI2F6)

233 I have never seen the show, but when I watch short clips of it--and read Ace's description--I think of it as "Allie McBeal for Fat Girls."

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (ysUZg)

234 93 It's supposed to be: You want... You'll settle for... You'll get... Jumpin' Jesus on a jackhammer, now we have Meme Nazi's? Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 01:37 PM (7ObY1) ::: snort :::

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (36Rjy)

235 Is there anything blog commenter's don't know?

Posted by: Homer at March 10, 2014 01:52 PM (jl269)

 

 

----------------------------------------------

 

 

Hmmmm.  I don't know.

Posted by: Soona at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (y92mV)

236 CHARLIE MURPHY!!!!!     DARKNESS!!!!

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (GQ8sn)

237 With the relocation of The Tonight Show to NYC, NBC has completed its transition to DNC TV

Posted by: phreshone at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (Q6pxP)

238 There are only about four people in Scotland so they all know each other.

I've heard there isn't any pr0n coming out of Scotland for that very reason.  Also, who wants to hear a Scot in the throes of ecstasy?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (P7Wsr)

239 I'm glad Lena has some sort of "show business" career going, because she has neither the business acumen nor integrity to make it in her more likely field of truck stop hooker.

Posted by: 141Driver at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (/E3ql)

240 but would Fergusson play at 11:30? --- Not as good, but I think he could make it work.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone But Likes Non-Political Posts at March 10, 2014 09:59 AM (9ysE1)

241 so what's the deal here?

did someone declare Monday's to be "serious social commentary day" or something?

i mean really, who gives a shit about tv shows?

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 10, 2014 10:00 AM (q+fqH)

242 Key and Peele - Slavery auction skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB7MichlL1k

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 10:00 AM (ZPrif)

243 Kenny Rogers does "Jackass." Enjoy. http://tinyurl.com/2675dhx

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 10:00 AM (659DL)

244 Hold my drink, bitch!


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 10:00 AM (GQ8sn)

245 198 Bass-O-Matic Posted by: Cheri at March 10, 2014 01:54 PM (G+Wff) --------------- THAT and his Julia Child skit are the cream of the SNL crop.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (dfYL9)

246 MAD TV - The only comedy show I watched on a regular basis.  Great writing.  Alex Borstein was superb.  Sasso, Aries Spears, Mo Collins and the outstanding Debra Wilson.  Great stuff!

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (JBggj)

247 When people take about "can so and so make it at 11:30 vs 12:30", they forget that in Central/Mountain time zones, the 11:30 shows are on at 10:30 and the 12:30 shows are on at 11:30.  So for a good chunk of the country, Ferguson is on at 11:30 and doing just fine.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (0LHZx)

248 241 A life that is politics 24/7 is an empty one.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (ojnk6)

249 Key and Peele - Substitute Teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (ZPrif)

250 O/T, but if there's a more punchable face in the world than Kim Jong Un's, I haven't seen it.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (7ObY1)

251

I think she was the one that commented about Bush and rape or something. Off to google.

 

***

 

Dang it! Don't tell me that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 01:57 PM (DmNpO)

 

 

----------------------------------------------

 

 

Yup.  She said if one votes for Bush,  they approve of rape. 

 

 

 

Posted by: Soona at March 10, 2014 10:01 AM (y92mV)

252 228 I think she was the one that commented about Bush and rape or something. Off to google. *** Dang it! Don't tell me that. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 01:57 PM (DmNpO) Okay I won't tell you. Also avoid googling it.

Posted by: Homer at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (jl269)

253 Seems like 1/2 of the passengers on that Malaysia plane had false passports? And I had to take my shoes off this weekend and get patted down by a guy?

Posted by: Achmed at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (t3UFN)

254 I bet Dunham was something before electricity.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (P1WNR)

255 Yup. She said if one votes for Bush, they approve of rape.


Wasn't that Cameron Diaz?  Voting to legalize rape?


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (GQ8sn)

256 O/T, but if there's a more punchable face in the world than Kim Jong Un's, I haven't seen it. I'm more of a Buford Pusser stick guy, but whatevs.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (659DL)

257 "ut it's impossible to be a feminist AND a pro-lifer" Psst. Over here. I have a group that you would like. New Wave Feminists. Pro-life, badasss, and not even the least bit man hating. The original feminists were all pro-life. Then the abortion lovers took over. Seriously, check them out.

Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (hFL/3)

258 i mean really, who gives a shit about tv shows? Posted by: redc1c4 at March 10, 2014 02:00 PM (q+fqH) Brother, I'm always about 5 seconds from digging a hole in the desert. If I can play along with the tv show thread, so can you.

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (x3YFz)

259 Constructive criticism:  if you had put everything after the the title of the post "below the fold," it would have been much easier to skip.

And to those who actually give a rat's patootie about anything to do with Lena Dunham, I pity you poor wretches.

Posted by: Adjoran at March 10, 2014 10:02 AM (QIQ6j)

260 Agreed, Mad TV was the funniest show I've ever seen. I miss weird comedy shows like the Vacant Lot, which got some love on the blog with the ball-dipping skit and the misheard lyrics Blinded By the Light poker skit.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (Y92Nd)

261 SNL has always had more than it's share of bombs, but they usually had two or three sketches a show (sometimes more) that were damn funny. A few times a year they'd have some that were insanely funny and quotable for decades. Even through the 90s and into the early 00s. But I haven't seen a viral SNL skit that made me laugh in years and I've caught a couple of episodes in the past five years that couldn't even get me to smile.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (gBnkX)

262 CBS Should can that unfunny fuckin letterman and replace him with Craig Ferguson.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (78GBd)

263 I've heard there isn't any pr0n coming out of Scotland for that very reason. Also, who wants to hear a Scot in the throes of ecstasy? Baaaaah. Baaaaaaah!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (GjYxB)

264 How can we forget about Steve Martin and King Tut.
http://youtu.be/wgTPH5y1-ZI

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (m1gXb)

265 The dad of Duke University’s famous porn-star coed is an Army doctor, who learned of his little girl’s racy off-campus work after returning from duty in Afghanistan. Dr. Kevin Weeks had just come home from one of the world’s most dangerous corners, only to be hit with the stunning news on the home front, according to The Daily Mail. Weeks was shocked that daughter Miriam Weeks — known as sex kitten Belle Knox in her porn moonlighting — was doing the deed on film so she could help out with Duke’s massive tuition. The doctor and his wife are devout Catholics from Spokane, Wash., who will embrace Miriam no matter what she does, according to family members. “This is a tragedy in the family. The father is one of the best human beings I’ve ever met,” said Amanda Minor, the mother-in-law of Miriam’s brother, Paul. “He is just back from Afghanistan. He served his country, how awesome is that?” ??? Just what a Dad back from Afghanistan wants to hear? Shit

Posted by: Achmed at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (t3UFN)

266 What did the five fingers say to the face?


SLAP!!!!

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 10:03 AM (GQ8sn)

267 I read on Yid with a Lib this morning that Truth Revolt won the CPAC Blog Bash for Non Profit blogger (Jeff Dunetz), which made me jump to Truth Revolt, which made me see this story (sadly) this morning. Legal Insurrection won The Blogger of The Year honoree - whatever that means. But, kudos to LI.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 10:04 AM (IXrOn)

268 256 O/T, but if there's a more punchable face in the world than Kim Jong Un's, I haven't seen it. I'm more of a Buford Pusser stick guy, but whatevs. Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 02:02 PM (659DL) I was going to go with axe handle, but to each his own.

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 10:04 AM (x3YFz)

269 Everyone put your serious faces on and mutter "Crimea" under your breath. The scolds are amongst us.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 10:04 AM (659DL)

270 Seems like 1/2 of the passengers on that Malaysia plane had false passports? Posted by: Achmed at March 10, 2014 02:02 PM (t3UFN) Probably staffing a sweat shop in San Francisco.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 10:04 AM (Y92Nd)

271 It's too un-PC to make the compilations and syndicated edits, but one of the funniest damn skits from the early SNL was The Young Caucasians. Their white-bread version of "What'd I Say?" has me rolling on the floor every time. Great parody of the sanitized versions of R & B hits that plagued the Fifties. Then, guest host Ray Charles showed how it's supposed to be done.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 10:04 AM (7ObY1)

272 253 Seems like 1/2 of the passengers on that Malaysia plane had false passports? And I had to take my shoes off this weekend and get patted down by a guy?

Posted by: Achmed at March 10, 2014 02:02 PM (t3UFN)

 

Well, with a name like Achmed, what did you expect?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 10, 2014 10:04 AM (DrWcr)

273 When people take about "can so and so make it at 11:30 vs 12:30", they forget that in Central/Mountain time zones, the 11:30 shows are on at 10:30 and the 12:30 shows are on at 11:30. So for a good chunk of the country, Ferguson is on at 11:30 and doing just fine.

That's missing the point, which is not that 11:30 is some magical time on the clock where the rules change, it's that the mythical average person watches their local news and then whatever's on immediately after that before falling asleep.  Hence the show second after the news has more leeway in terms of what they can get away with.  Conan could do the Masturbating Bear (who may or may not have been played by Ace) at 11:30/12:30, but probably not at 10:30/11:30.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (B/VB5)

274 >>> Constructive criticism: if you had put everything after the the title of the post "below the fold," it would have been much easier to skip. And to those who actually give a rat's patootie about anything to do with Lena Dunham, I pity you poor wretches. ... I'm sorry to have challenged your worldview and ego by discussing the top-center link at Drudge.

Posted by: ace at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (/FnUH)

275 86 63 I haven't watched SNL since Beluchi and friends were on it. Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 10, 2014 01:33 PM (t3UFN) ____________ You missed a lot of good stuff by Will Ferrel, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey....that era (1990ish to 1998ish) was a lot funner than the Belushi era IMO. I wasn't old enough to watch the Belushi era, but the little I have seen in re-runs or online, I dunno, I just don't find it that funny. Could be a generational things I guess. Some comedy only works at a certain time and place. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 10, 2014 01:35 PM (0LHZx) I've watched SNL since the first season, and even back then, it was hit and miss. They did have shitty musical guests, and they had lots of shitty hosts. There were also a lot of skits that made you sit there and say "WTF". And let's not forget, Buck Henry was the "go to" host the first few years. Throughout its history, SNL has had what are considered the "highs" and "lows" in terms of cast members. People think the "original" cast was the high point, others think when Eddie Murphy was on, others the Myers, Sandler era. Some think the original cast's replacements were the worst, some the cast right after Murphy left, and some think now is the worst cast. It doesn't matter because Lorne Michaels now has complete control over NBC's late night programming. NBC knows that Saturdays are the low point in television advertising, so if he can deliver average ratings at a cheap price, NBC is happy. Lorne is probably cutting cast salary costs in order to "bank up" some money right now so that in a couple of years he can get a pretty good cast that will be pretty good for the 2016 elections. That way, they can do some primetime stuff that will make the show "hip" and relevant.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (HxSXm)

276 I've heard there isn't any pr0n coming out of Scotland for that very reason. Also, who wants to hear a Scot in the throes of ecstasy? Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2014 01:59 PM (P7Wsr) Mate, I found a fiver and they didn't charge me for my pint!

Posted by: Scot in Ecstasy at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (0FSuD)

277 I bet Dunham was something before electricity.

You mean before the discovery of fire.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (m1gXb)

278 CBS Should can that unfunny fuckin letterman and replace him with Craig Ferguson. Problem: Letterman's production company owns both shows.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (659DL)

279 168 Have given Jimmy a chance but he is just not that funny.
I don't know why people think "watch me smirk and almost laugh at my own weak-ass joke" is HI-larious. Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys has more funny in him. Shit, Philadelphia Phil is funnier. Posted by: RoyalOil at March 10, 2014 01:49 PM (VjL9S)

I wiki'd info about Gramercy Park a few months back, while watching White Collar, and learned that he lives in the area, I think he has access to the park. I wonder if his rabid LIV fans know he is a stinking 1%er?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park

Posted by: Never Nudes at March 10, 2014 10:05 AM (BF+2f)

280 265 Sounds like they raised her with too much "no matter what" -- no moral boundaries now.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (Y92Nd)

281 BTW, can I just say how much I loathe that Dunham chose to call her show Girls?   talk about infantilization.      "Oh, I'm a terrible person, but I'm still a girlchild at heart, even though I'm a grown up and do grown up things like have   fucktons of   sex with worthless guys!"


You're a doughy   twat   with a flabby FUPA    who's going to be a has-been before you were an ever-was, honey.   You don't get    to hide behind the  "I'm a little girl"    shield anymore.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (4df7R)

282 I've heard there isn't any pr0n coming out of Scotland for that very reason. Also, who wants to hear a Scot in the throes of ecstasy? About as many people as want to hear their national musical instrument. "That's not music, that's bagpipes."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (0HooB)

283 I'm so out of it culturally I might as well be living in a cave . I did discover the incredible awesomeness of Ron Swanson recently though . The man's a demigod . My favorite character of the last decade .

Posted by: awkward davies at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (whqez)

284 How about The Upright Citizen's Brigade? Didn't last long but it was weird and funny. And it was Amy Poehler's breakthrough. "Poop on a stick" was hysterical. It was an alternative to owning a firearm. Just wave the poop on a stick and watch the bad guys flee.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (7ObY1)

285 Damn, looking around for Chappelle lines. That show was truly frickin' hilarious. When Wayne Brady goes bad The Real Real World Tyrone Biggums classics And the gal that wished her ta-tas away was smokin' hot. (IIRC)

Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (fWAjv)

286 Wasn't that Cameron Diaz? Voting to legalize rape?



Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 02:02 PM (GQ8sn)

 

 

--------------------------------------------

 

 

Wasn't that who we were talking about?

Posted by: Soona at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (y92mV)

287 oops sock off

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 10, 2014 10:06 AM (t3UFN)

288 Psst. Over here. I have a group that you would like.


New Wave Feminists.


Pro-life, badasss, and not even the least bit man hating.


The original feminists were all pro-life. Then the abortion lovers took over.


Seriously, check them out.

Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2014 02:02 PM (hFL/3)



Hell to the yes!   


That's what I mean when I say   the    "current definition"   of feminism.     Today's    feminism is all about female superiority and male  inferiority.   Fuck that shit.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 10:07 AM (4df7R)

289 I did discover the incredible awesomeness of Ron Swanson recently though . The man's a demigod . My favorite character of the last decade .


Ron Swanson = demigod


Nick Offerman = libtard


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 10:07 AM (GQ8sn)

290 Yeah, the dad of the Duke porn girl made a fatal error in letting his daughter get swept up in the women's studies bullshit. Seriously, that's what she's studying at Duke. Women's Studies. If my daughters decide to major in something so idiotic they can go to Texas Tech (sorry alumni). I'm not paying 40K/ year for that bullshit either. But anyway, the parents seem like good people. Sad..

Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2014 10:07 AM (hFL/3)

291 266 What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!!!! Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 02:03 PM (GQ8sn) The Wayne Brady Choke a Bitch is the all-time classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc5OZVvD4Jo

Posted by: tangonine at March 10, 2014 10:07 AM (x3YFz)

292 Wasn't that who we were talking about?

Posted by: Soona at March 10, 2014 02:06 PM (y92mV)



Were we?  I can't keep track.

Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 10:07 AM (GQ8sn)

293 Early Mad TV was hysterical.      The UPS guy!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 10:08 AM (4df7R)

294 i mean really, who gives a shit about tv shows? Posted by: redc1c4 at March 10, 2014 02:00 PM (q+fqH) shall we talk about the weather? (True Detective post should be ALL under the fold! I was quick to shut my browser and leave AOSHQ's, but, I am sure some who haven't seen it yet weren't.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 10:08 AM (IXrOn)

295 The Wayne Brady Choke a Bitch is the all-time classic:


Hehe...


"I didn't know you liked to get wet!"


"Gimme your sandwich!!!"


Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 10:08 AM (GQ8sn)

296 The 15 Funniest In Living Color skits http://bit.ly/1is0835

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 10, 2014 10:08 AM (DmNpO)

297 Another Saturday night and she ain't got nobody
She has some money 'cause she just got paid
How she wish she had someone to talk to
She in awful mess

Blew in HBO two seasons ago, she seen a lotta girls boys whatever since then
She can find'em she can't get'em and as yet she has'nt et'em
That's why she's in the shape she's in ohhhh

Another Saturday night and she ain't got nobody
She has some money 'cause she just got paid
How she wish she had someone to talk to
She in awful mess

Another person told her it had a sibling that looked so fine
Instead of being her deliverance, it had a strong resemblance
To a cat named John Kerry Frankenstein ohhhh....

Another Saturday night and she ain't got nobody
She has some money 'cause she just got paid
How she wish she had someone to talk to
She in awful mess

It's hard for a D-lister, when she don't know his way around
If she can't find her a honey to help her spend my money
She's gonna have to blow this town ohhh....

Another Saturday night and she ain't got nobody
She has some money 'cause she just got paid
How she wish she had someone to talk to
She in awful mess

(With apologies to the late Sam Cooke).

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 10, 2014 10:09 AM (DQZLr)

298 Clayton Bigsby

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 10, 2014 10:09 AM (78GBd)

299 SNL in the late 70s did a parody of the U.S. Navy recruitment commercials. "Join the Navy and See the World" showed a place like Hong Kong, or some other exotic place with happy sailors on liberty. SNL did one called; "Port of Call, Bayone, New Jersey." Besides showing sailors cleaning heads, scraping paint, and painting, it showed the lovely sights of Bayone.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 10, 2014 10:09 AM (LKJt3)

300 What a coinky dink.  I watched SNL for the first time in heaven knows how long. 

It sucked really bad and was not funny at all so much that I turned it off.  I found this Leena Dunham gal to be very obnoxious adding to her unattractiveness as a person more so as to her apparent shtick as a dumpy wallflower or whatever it is. Of what I watched, I did think that the lead character in the "Pimp, pimpin' with Katt" character to be well done.  He has talent.  The fat chick, news guy etc. and all were just not funny.  Nothing like some of the other talents of the past.

Posted by: eureka! at March 10, 2014 10:09 AM (xiXna)

301 "I think she was the one that commented about Bush and rape or something." ------------ Are you talking about Cameron Diaz. Batshit crazy leftist, but with the emphasis on crazy, as in knee-jerk and brain-dead. She's the one that thought it was cute to carry a handbag emblazoned with Maoist symbols in Peru. And then she was surprised when they spit at her for it. (Over 100,000 dead from Shining Path/Maoist terrorism there.) "Golly gee! I didn't know! In Hollywood it's cool!"

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 10, 2014 10:09 AM (dfYL9)

302 The last truly funny SNL from opening to curtain drop was a 90's episode hosted by John Goodman that included the 'Mike Ditka Type A Christmas' (Hartman as Ditka) and the 'Anal Retentive Chef' (Hartman w/ Goodman playing a Paul Prudhomme type) --- S15E7 according to google

Posted by: phreshone at March 10, 2014 10:09 AM (Q6pxP)

303 Never got into Kids In the Hall, but I liked parts of Brain Candy.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 10:10 AM (Y92Nd)

304 272 253 Seems like 1/2 of the passengers on that Malaysia plane had false passports? And I had to take my shoes off this weekend and get patted down by a guy? Posted by: Achmed at March 10, 2014 02:02 PM (t3UFN) I've had intensives the last 4 times I've flown, and I'm getting tired of it. Either the NSA monitors me online and thinks I'm a Teabagger threat, or my dark skin makes them nervous. Last time, at Denver Int'l, I had finally had it (2nd time that day), and when they said "sir, please step over to the officer" I loudly said "Why do only dark-skinned people get pulled aside after the body scan?" Everyone looked and there were some murmors of discontent in the crowd. I hope I made the TSA fuckers nervous.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 10:10 AM (7ObY1)

305 Really, who gives a shit about TV shows?  You people made me waste an hour reading 300 comments about something that doesn't interest me.

Posted by: Scoldilocks at March 10, 2014 10:10 AM (A0sHn)

306 Ah Peru.  The country that put the leader of the Shining Path in a large cage like an animal in the zoo.

Hail Peruvia!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 10, 2014 10:11 AM (m1gXb)

307 "He is strong like ox. You are weak and soft and dressed like baby." "24? WTF..." That was actually funny.

Posted by: Beagle at March 10, 2014 10:11 AM (sOtz/)

308 280 265 Sounds like they raised her with too much "no matter what" -- no moral boundaries now. Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 02:06 PM (Y92Nd) I doubt that. Army officers aren't known for that behavior, although being gone for a long time might add to it. I think the whole story is horseshit. The girl is obviously smart, she got into Duke, but has anyone seen any of these "pron shows" she's done? She's living the dream feeding the MSM horseshit for her book. You would think a link would show up in some story, but it never does. Why?

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2014 10:11 AM (0FSuD)

309 I've heard there isn't any pr0n coming out of Scotland for that very reason. Also, who wants to hear a Scot in the throes of ecstasy? It was either put up with it or jump off the cliff.

Posted by: The Sheep at March 10, 2014 10:11 AM (SY2Kh)

310 RIP Gilda Radner.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 10, 2014 10:11 AM (36Rjy)

311 You people made me waste an hour reading 300 comments about something that doesn't interest me.

ISWYDT.

Posted by: HR at March 10, 2014 10:12 AM (ZKzrr)

312 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2014 10:13 AM (GjYxB)

313 Fun fact: Ferguson was in a punk bank with Peter Capaldi (the next Doctor) back in the 80s. There are only about four people in Scotland so they all know each other. Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 10, 2014 01:57 PM (A0sHn)

Awesome! Ferguson is adorably geeky over Doctor Who. I am sure he'll have Capaldi on sometime, and when he does I will have to watch, it will be epic.

Posted by: Never Nudes at March 10, 2014 10:13 AM (BF+2f)

314 "308 280 265 Sounds like they raised her with too much "no matter what" -- no moral boundaries now. " I don't know. Her mom is Indian and apparently was very strict, and her dad's an Army doctor. I think the issue is rebellion, pure and simple. Rebellion + Women's Studies BS= Empowerment Pron

Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2014 10:13 AM (hFL/3)

315 RIP Gilda Radner.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 10, 2014 02:11 PM (36Rjy)



Ain't it the truth?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at March 10, 2014 10:13 AM (4df7R)

316 You people made me waste an hour reading 300 comments about something that doesn't interest me. ISWYDT. Posted by: HR at March 10, 2014 02:12 PM (ZKzrr) hehe, yea

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 10:14 AM (IXrOn)

317 186?
T9?

Neither one of my dear lost wives put up with nonsense from any man or woman. They considered themselves "Liberated, but not feminists." If that makes sense to you.
Every day with them was an adventure and a pleasure.

Posted by: backhoe at March 10, 2014 10:14 AM (ULH4o)

318 Religious Floridians openly call for the death of blacks. http://tinyurl.com/prgl4dz

Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 10:14 AM (fWAjv)

319 RIP Gilda Radner. Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 10, 2014 02:11 PM (36Rjy) Ain't it the truth? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 10, 2014 02:13 PM (4df7R) And, Coneheads.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (IXrOn)

320 185 Dave Chappell show was hilarious and not PC at all until he went crazy and quit had a skit, "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong" very very funny also any skit with Rick James and the blind black man who was the head of the KKK Posted by: thunderb at March 10, 2014 01:52 PM (zOTsN) And being terrorized by Wayne Brady.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (36Rjy)

321 And, by funny, I mean a few chuckles per show. Nobody can point to a single episode of SNL that was as consistently funny as, for instance, a decent episode of Seinfeld, or early 30 Rock, or early Modern Family.

I can think of one, but only one.

Dec 09, 1989:

Yard-a-pult
Messy Date
Tales of the Runaway Boulder
Attack of the Masturbating Zombies
I believe there was a Tales of Ribaldry

I originally thought Happy Fun Ball was this episode, but it wasn't.  That was Feb 16, 1991, and seems otherwise unmemorable.

Posted by: grognard at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (/29Nl)

322 I thought I read somewhere where Miriam said her parents knew and they were just fine with her porn career. So either I was mistaken or Miriam lied.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (XyM/Y)

323 Speaking of skits you couldn't do today. Chris Rock's advice. http://tinyurl.com/3yaavf

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (0FSuD)

324 I'm not surprised about Offerman EC . Reckon his liberalness goes with the entertainment territory . Maybe Offerman is deep undercover until he's as rich as Kelsey Grammer .

Posted by: awkward davies at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (whqez)

325 How can we forget about Steve Martin and King Tut.
====
The only sketch I ever memorized.  On the floor, laughing so hard breathing was difficult.

And I loved Gilda Radner.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2014 10:15 AM (JBggj)

326 And Chappelle's Show was the funniest sketch comedy ever made.

Posted by: grognard at March 10, 2014 10:16 AM (/29Nl)

327 Religious Floridians openly call for the death of blacks. http://tinyurl.com/prgl4dz Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 02:14 PM (fWAjv) Interesting you left off that it was black pastors.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 10, 2014 10:16 AM (IXrOn)

328 She lied, I think. The interview I read implied her family was not thrilled.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 10:16 AM (Y92Nd)

329 Robinson and local pastors are calling for the increased use of capital punishment, especially when it comes to black-on-black crimes. "The message has to get out -- a strong message that black life does matter, that there is a value attached to it," Pastor Kenneth Adkins said. He said community interest shouldn't solely surround trials like George Zimmerman's or Michael Dunn's. He said the same passion demonstrators displayed then is necessary every time a person is killed. "Where is the outrage when it's black-on-black crime? Adkins said. "Where are the marchers, where are folks that are fighting and those that are upset? It should be the same amount of passion from the community standpoint." Pastor Terrance Calloway said he's eulogized the deaths of nearly a dozen black men and teens over the last four years. He wants to see more mentorship programs offered for black teens and neighborhood programs to offset violent crimes. "I think the death penalty is sufficient for those who kill heinously," Calloway said. "We still have a problem that needs to be addressed, not just in the religious community, as the entire community." So crazy that it may just work.

Posted by: RWC at March 10, 2014 10:16 AM (fWAjv)

330 "312 Nood" IT'S A TRAP

Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2014 10:17 AM (hFL/3)

331 nood. go get scolded, scoldilocks's.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 10, 2014 10:17 AM (7ObY1)

332 You want links to Miriam's porn career? Go to "The Other McCain. He has them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 10, 2014 10:18 AM (XyM/Y)

333 "has anyone seen any of these "pron shows" she's done?" She's done about a dozen. I've seen stills.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at March 10, 2014 10:18 AM (Y92Nd)

334 T'S A TRAP Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2014 02:17 PM (hFL/3 Yep; if you post you're a censorious scold.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 10, 2014 10:19 AM (XyM/Y)

335 >>>And Chappelle's Show was the funniest sketch comedy ever made.

Um...Mr. Show called and said it thinks you're missing out.

Posted by: Jeff B., RINO emeritus at March 10, 2014 10:20 AM (ewYO6)

336 It seems the left has gotten quite good at elevating people w/ zero talent, charisma, intellect, looks, etc into positions where (some) people are evidently supposed to pay them attention. Simply by regurgitating the right buzz phrases: patriarchy, white privilege, etc etc. Fluke, Dunham, Tourette, Farrow, on and on

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 10, 2014 10:21 AM (XvrTA)

337 155 It was far and away the #1 show on Saturday in 18-49 and, I think, in total viewers. Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 10, 2014 01:37 PM (ZPrif) And was the second lowest rated episode of SNL of the year across households and the 18-49 crowd. So what does that say about the popularity of Saturday programming? The fact of the matter is it was a clunking failure. People tuned in for the musical guest and to see what all the fuss was about regarding Lena Dunham. They walked away unimpressed. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 10, 2014 01:46 PM (4df7R) That's like saying Coastal Carolina is one of the best teams in the country because they won the Big South and are in the NCAA tourney, but they aren't. Saturday nights on network television are the Bermuda Triangle and Black Hole of programming. It's where networks send shows to burn off new episodes so that they don't have to air them when it could hurt their actual numbers. The ratings for the show were the same as "Pawn Stars" Thursday night's show. Pawn Stars delivers more viewers than broadcast television on Saturday night. I would venture to say that the Duke/UNC basketball game was far and away the number one show on television Saturday night once those ratings come in. Almost forgot to add, the SNL ratings are based on the overnights which are based on the larger TV markets, once the ratings for "flyover" start getting added in, watch for the inevitable "adjusted downward" follow up.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 10:22 AM (HxSXm)

338
I don't watch television, so I can't comment on SNL or "Girls". However, this lifelong Catholic has no problem with comedians riffing on the Bible, as long as they're funny. Last Saturday, my wife and I were walking down the street when a bus drove by with a huge

 N O A H

poster on its side. Without missing a beat, we turned to each other and went, "Riiiiiiiiight!"

Posted by: Brown Line at March 10, 2014 10:30 AM (a5bF3)

339 Wrong. Feminists ARE shrill -- every last one of them. They are, by and large, unattractive, because they deliberately make themselves unattractive so as to "stick it to the patriarchy." And yes, there are a fair few who preach feminism because they know they're too ugly and too shallow to ever find a man.

---

Eh hem.

http://tinyurl.com/pdsdw3a

Posted by: whoever at March 10, 2014 10:31 AM (pjMym)

340 Welcome to post five, wherein ace over-explains jokes and why they are funnier than audience reaction would otherwise indicate.

Posted by: docweasel at March 10, 2014 10:31 AM (gW7Y2)

341 Clayton Bigsby? The first time I saw that I asked myself if this was real and actually happening. Brilliant and gut-punchingly hilarious. Posted by: EC at March 10, 2014 01:54 PM (GQ8sn) It was based on his grandfather. His grandfather was blind and very, very light skinned. From IMDB "Yes. Dave's grandfather was born blind. He was born in 1911 in a white hospital to a white woman. His birth father is unknown. According to Dave on the DVD commentary, "My grandfather looked like a white person. He probably was a white person...His dad was either black or white. Nobody knows. He could be white." He was adopted by a black family and he could not see himself so according to Dave "as far as he knows he's a black dude that grew up in the streets of D.C." On the day of the assassination of Martin Luther King, some black people started riots. According to Dave, on that day his grandfather is on a bus and hears a group of black youths threatening a white man. His grandfather thought how silly the white man was to be in a black neighborhood while blacks were rioting. He did not realize that the white man was him. As his grandfather explained to the youths that he was black, one can imagine the confused looks on their faces."

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 10, 2014 10:40 AM (HxSXm)

342 I know this isn't going to be well received, but I kinda like the chubby naked girl from HBO, I was annoyed by it the first season, but the characters are growing on me, and I like that Dunham seems in on the narcissist joke. The Adam and Eve joke made me laugh a few times, but that's probably because I like the show. However, the planned parenthood sketch on SNL was repulsive and beneath everyones dignity.

Posted by: ronette at March 10, 2014 10:42 AM (I8Sv/)

343 Um...Mr. Show called and said it thinks you're missing out.

Posted by: Jeff B., RINO emeritus at March 10, 2014 02:20 PM (ewYO6)


Can't stand David Cross.  He insists upon himself.

Posted by: grognard at March 10, 2014 10:45 AM (/29Nl)

344 I think people watch SNL because it's a "Hip" New York City biased Sacrament of the Liberal Church (and it's history).

Which is why it's lasted so much longer than it deserves.

People aren't watching it for entertainment. They're watching it so they can talk about it with their liberal friends and show how liberal they are. They would feel left out if missed something and people were talking about it and they had to say they didn't watch.

Being seen as liberal seems to be the point of most liberal activism anyway.


Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Microaggressive SoCon) at March 10, 2014 10:45 AM (LSDdO)

345 I suppose it's possible their intent was, possibly, to mock the intolerance of people on the left? That's not likely. They may not have thought it particularly funny, but I doubt they thought they were getting mocked.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at March 10, 2014 11:20 AM (1hM1d)

346 I almost hate to see Hannah Horvath compared to George Costanza, if only because Seinfeld is 1000 times wittier on average than Girls at its best.

Of course, Girls gets around that by pretending that it's trying to be something more meaningful than a mere comedy.

Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at March 10, 2014 11:21 AM (/AHDz)

347 I suppose it's possible their intent was, possibly, to mock the intolerance of people on the left?

Pollyanna   Pol·ly·an·na [pol-ee-an-uh] Show IPA noun 1. an excessively or blindly optimistic person. adjective 2. ( often lowercase ) . Also, Pol·ly·an·na·ish. unreasonably or illogically optimistic: some pollyanna notions about world peace.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 10, 2014 11:25 AM (FvyJS)

348

<i>Mad TV.</i>

 

Thank you! Yes, I could only think of In Living Color.

Posted by: Lea at March 10, 2014 11:34 AM (lIU4e)

349 You aren't alone, ronette. For, even though GIRLS Season 3 remains on my DVR as yet unwatched, I enjoyed Seasons 1 and 2 much more than most people here.

That said, the more exposure I get to "real life" Lena Dunham, the harder it is to look past her cretinous political positions, including that odious "first time" ad she did for Barack Obama.

Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at March 10, 2014 11:44 AM (/AHDz)

350 I have a confession to make. I laughed at that shite. I am so ashamed of myself. Please don't tell anybody I said that.

Posted by: Erowmero at March 10, 2014 12:04 PM (1gcFZ)

351

MAD TV - The only comedy show I watched on a regular basis. Great writing. Alex Borstein was superb. Sasso, Aries Spears, Mo Collins and the outstanding Debra Wilson. Great stuff!

 

Absolutely -- and don't forget Frank Caliendo, e.g. as John Madden.   Hilarious.

Posted by: JPS at March 10, 2014 12:15 PM (aY76I)

352 I've been watching "Girls" all along for reasons I know not. Perhaps I like watching train wrecks. Most of the show looks like it was shot through a dirty window. The first four shows repelled me because I thought it was glamorizing the lives of these lefty loser girls, a sort of louche "Sex In The City." Then I realized that it was a farce, mocking these directionless, vapid city twentysomethings. It is not praise for a lifestyle, but rather a horrible warning of what not to be and do. With that realization, I was repelled in an uplifting way by this tragedy. We peer through the dirty window of their sordid lives.

Posted by: Tantor at March 10, 2014 12:36 PM (659DL)

353 I've said it here before and I'll say it again: Lena Dunham is a very talented writer. And, you are correct that she makes herself the target of her own critique. So, I'm not surprised that she did the same thing on SNL. It's her style.

Posted by: Pastorius at March 10, 2014 05:04 PM (gMAUH)

354 I haven't found SNL funny in many, long years. IMHO here's funny by SNL's Pat Stevens sometime in the late '80s: Pat Stevens: Hi, thank you! Hello, everybody! Welcome to "The Pat Stevens Show", I'm Pat Stevens. Well, you caught me doing my favorite thing - reading a good book! You know, I like to think of my mind as a big, empty bucket, just waiting to be filled with pictures and words and.. whatever. Surprise me! That's why Vogue is my favorite book.. and you know, I have my own library - volumes and volumes of Vogue. You know, I can just refer to them. What was I thinking last October? Well, I can look, and it's right here, between September and November! I just love leafing through the pictures.. I know there's pain in the world, and poison and hunger and other bad things, but I love a jersey knit. [ sighs ] And the pictures are just so educational.. [ flips to a page ] Here's one I just love. [ holds it up to the audience ] It's a picture of a woman in a fur, and she has a baby. I've always thought that children made the best accessories! Well, gals, please pick up a book, I cannot express that enough - they're not that heavy.

Posted by: BarneyOffal at March 10, 2014 05:37 PM (ul4Lc)

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